Decision: Accepted
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1580 (800 M, 780 R/W)
ACT (breakdown): 36 (E: 36, M: 36, R: 36, S: 36)
SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chemistry, 790 English
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.88
Weighted GPA: 4.43
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 9/384
AP (place score in parenthesis): Macro (5), APUSH (5), Chemistry (4), Environmental Science (4), World History (4), Micro (4), Statistics (4), BC Calc (3), Physics 1 (3)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: Media in Society, Drawing, Ceramics, Gym, AP Government, AP Geography, AP Biology, AP Spanish, AP English
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, Fed Challenge 2 year national finalist, a statewide leadership/talent award for soccer
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity soccer (captain junior/senior year) and we were pretty good, NHS (president), Student-Parent Representative, Spanish Honor Society, Fed Challenge, Retreat team
Job/Work Experience: Soccer referee I guess
Volunteer/Community service: Created a program that collects food/items/etc for the local homeless shelter that just recently registered as a 501©(3), Altar serving/hospitality minister/etc at my local parish, Tutored disabled children in the area as part of a school program
Summer Activities: Chemistry research at OSU for 3 summers
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Common App- 10, by far my best essay, wrote about my identical twin brother and how college will force us apart as a necessary part of growing up, short essays were more 7ish- they weren’t bad but generally felt pretty forced
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: 7, AP Geography/APUSH teacher- very complimentary but not super personal
Teacher Rec #2: 7, AP Stat/Precalc teacher- knows me well and wrote a nice recommendation
Counselor Rec: 10- Really flattering and personalized even though I only had her my senior year
Additional Rec: 10, The professor I worked with at OSU- Saw me struggle and develop over the course of my internship and conveyed that in his letter
Interview: Wasn’t offered one
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yep- 4 other kids from my family will be in college at the same time (one set of twins and one set of triplets within two years of each other)
Intended Major: Economics (probably)
State (if domestic applicant): Ohio
Country (if international applicant): N/A
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
Income Bracket: around $300,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Legacy on my dad’s side
Reflection
Strengths: Test scores, legacy, really liked my Common App
Weaknesses: I definitely didn’t get perfect grades and had nothing incredibly major as far as awards go
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Honestly I think my legacy status is really what did it for me- there’s a lot of qualified people out there. Maybe the whole twin/triplet thing made me stand out? I’m definitely not a bad applicant but it’s just so hard to get in.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted- MIT, Northwestern, OSU, UMich
General Comments: It’s just a tossup man and luck plays a huge part.